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Stop Cop City Rally & Press Conference 03/09/2023

From the organizer:

FreeHer VT | Cooperation Vermont | Peoples Network for Land and Liberation | Food Not Cops | People’s Kitchen

In response to the National Call to Action from the Stop Cop City Coalition in Atlanta, GA, activists in Vermont rally and hold a press conference in solidarity, directed at Cox Enterprises to immediately divest from Cop City and cease their fundraising activities.

The City of Atlanta has leased 381 acres of Weelaunee Forest (the last substantial green space in the Atlanta area) to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a militarized police training facility funded by corporations. At the price of 90 million dollars, it includes a mock city to practice urban warfare, tear gas and explosives testing, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad. Supported by the Atlanta Committee for Progress, which is composed of over 40 corporate elites including the CEOs of Coca-Cola, Home Depot and Cox, its aim is to further the surveillance of the population, stifling decent, and gentrification of the city.

Jim (Fergie) Cox Chambers, Jr. speaks out on March 9th in Burlington against his family company’s (Cox Enterprises) direct involvement in the private fundraising efforts for Cop City.

Cox Enterprises owns Dealer.Com in Burlington

https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/

Mad Pride Rally 2022 07/16/2022

Vermonters gather to show support for neurodivergent community members.

Bread Not Bombs - Support for Peace in Ukraine 05/07/2022

The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Code Pink invite Peter Schumann, director of the Bread and Puppet Theater, of Glover VT, to hand out his sourdough rye bread as part of an event in support of Bread not Bombs on Saturday, May 7th.

This is part of a nation wide movement - PeaceInUkraine - which calls for a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement in Ukraine.

Peter was born in Silesia, a region of Central Europe, now mainly in Poland. His recently deceased wife, Elka Schumann, has family in Russia.

Out of family concern, and also as a long time bread maker and peace activist, Schumann is deeply distressed with the war in Ukraine, its impact on the people, the climate, the world and bread making.

Bans Off Our Bodies Rally 05/04/2022

Hundreds gather outside Burlington's Federal building to protest the proposed overturning of Roe v. Wade leaked from the Supreme Court.

UVM Staff Contract Negotiations Solidarity Protest 04/27/2022

Neighborhood Media Interns interview students protesting in solidarity for UVM staff demanding a livable, equitable wage.

For more info: www.uvmstaffunited.org

Explain the Asterisk - National Walkout Against Campus Sexual Violence 04/27/2022

Explain the Asterisk stages a student walkout outisde the Waterman Building on the UVM campus as part of a nationwide walkout and protest against campus sexual violence.

For more info: www.explaintheasterisk.org

Statements on the Ukrainian Conflict from Vermont's Lawmakers 03/16/2022

VT Representative Peter Welch, Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Patrick Leahy make statements on the War in Ukraine during the early days of the invasion. Interspersed is footage from a rally for Ukraine held by UVM students.

Edited by Ellie Ousey

Vermonters for Ukraine Freedom Rally 03/05/2022

Ukrainians and supporters of Ukraine gather on the steps of Burlington City Hall to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

UVM Students Protest War in Ukraine 02/28/2022

Footage from a protest organized by University of Vermont students against Russia's war on Ukraine.

Protest Against the Events in Tigray Ethiopia 12/04/2021

A group from Boston march down Church Street to protest the events in Tigray, Ethiopia and raise awareness to the atrocities taking place there.

"The night after the US election, on November 4th 2020, Abiy Ahmed, Nobel prize winner and Prime Minister of Ethiopia, started bombing Mekele, the capital city of Tigray in the North of Ethiopia. There was quickly a shut down of all communications, no internet, no electricity and no media allowed into the region, a region of over 6 million people. This bombing campaign, quickly escalated, with Ethiopian troops taking the city, followed by neighbouring Eritrea invading with reports of razed refugee camps, looting, sexual violence, massacres and extrajudicial killings. Many more have fled to Sudan, in what the United Nations has called the worst exodus of refugees from Ethiopia seen in two decades. They describe a disastrous conflict that's given rise to ethnic violence.

The region of Tigray has been under siege for months now. No humanitarian aid is being allowed in. Hundreds of thousands of people have died and are slowly dying of starvation. 90% of hospitals and clinics have been destroyed. Local people here in Vermont, with ties to Tigray, report family members who have been kidnapped and tortured by Eritrean troops, and others getting messages out of the country saying they have no food and no money to take care of their children. The Tigray Defence Force are now marching on Addis Ababa with the hope of capturing the city and ousting Abiy Ahmed from power."